Saturday, December 15, 2012

Self Portrait

Dred Scott

SELF PORTRAIT

It’s always sobering—For an aging baby boomerLike me to sometimes do A little Self Portraiture Outta the WW II womb—And Great Depression Viola! A bunch of usPampered spoiled bratsDrive In junkies—We had cars back thenPostwar rug-rats and theWhole world was ours______________Hot Elvis the Pelvis—Ducktail Rock & Roll!!!Wild and Affluent youthWe had things to do!Too good to be true—They laid the nefariousViet Nam War on us toControl our GenerationIt seems like there’s—Always intergenerationalWarfare going on betweenKids and parents_________________There were simply—Too many of us wildTurbulent youth so let’sHave another War, dears!And so they gave us—Nixon and “Night ofThe Living Dead” to putDown our 60’s LibidoBody-bags and war—Such dirty things butWhat the fucking hellWar economies work!_____________“Love not War!” —Proclaimed the HippiesCounterculture protest &Generational War beganIt’s Still going on—So many fucking wars laterEach generation faced withThe same denouementNOW it’s gay lib’s turn—We’re all just Fag slackers“Bestiality” Bad Boyz theGreat Law scholars call us________________Gay marriage approved—Slowly state by state despite DOMA declaring its sanctityEver So Heteronormative!Salome does her lovely dance—Oscar Wilde gets another chance To dance with the Supreme Court’sEsteemed Justice Antonin Scalia“Heads” or Tails it’s bound to be—The Dance of the Seven VeilsIf only “Salome” Rita Hayworth andCharles Laughton could be there_________________And so here I am, my dears—Nothing but a minor little pawnA mere Reductio ad absurdum “Fallen Angel” it seems for nowNot that future generations—Will even remember the trialsAnd tribulations of what’s comingDown in this so-so legal soiree_____________________My whole life now seems somewhat—Caught up between two importantLegal cases: “The Dred Scott Decision” With Blacks & me simply slave chattelAnd “Brown vs. Board of Education 1954”—Concerned with equal educational rightsAnd opportunities of African-Americans And now GLBT citizens as well, my dears